Body Electric (album)

Body Electric is a collaborative album by ambient artists Steve Roach and Vir Unis. The music is a unique blend of smooth ambient textures, techno rhythms and various acoustic and natural recordings.

Body Electric
Studio album by Steve Roach and Vir Unis
Released	1999
Genre	Ambient
Length	56:54
Label	Projekt Records
Producer	Steve Roach and Vir Unis
Steve Roach chronology
Dreaming... Now, Then: A Retrospective 1982-1997 (1999) Body Electric (1999) Quiet Music: Complete Edition (1999)
Vir Unis chronology
Imaginarium (1998) Body Electric (1999) The Drift Inside (1999)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
Alternative Press	favorable
Progressive World

The artwork on the album was created by computer artist Steven Rooke. Instead of a booklet, this CD comes with four cards. The first card contains the front cover and on the reverse side the liner notes while the other three cards feature a panel of artwork on each side.

Track listing

1. "Born of Fire" – 9:12
2. "Pure Expansion" – 10:16
3. "Mind Link" – 7:07
4. "Gene Pool" – 5:40
5. "Synaptic Gap" – 1:56
6. "Homunculus Within" – 4:15
7. "Bloodstreaming" – 3:10
8. "Solar Tribe" – 4:13
9. "The New Dream" – 3:58
10. "Cave of the Heart" – 7:00

Personnel

• Steve Roach – analog and digital synthesizers, percussion, voice, treatments
• Vir Unis – synthesizers, treatments
• Omar Faruk Tekbilek – ney (on "Born of Fire")
• Roger King – bass (on "Born of Fire" and "The New Dream"), EBow guitar (on "Born of Fire")
• Linda Kohanov – voices (on "Pure Expansion")